Sikh

I am the only member of my family born in the United States. My parents, brother, and sister immigrated after the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, where thousands were murdered as India descended into nationalistic bloodshed. My own father nearly died: he was pulled off a train by an armed mob, beaten unconscious, and left for dead on the tracks. Shortly thereafter, he gathered everything he had and brought his family to Iowa City. That violence left scars on my father’s body, and it lit a fire in my…

India, a India where there would have been very less religious intolerance. In the chapter “ The Untouchables” , a lot of lesser known facts of the Sikhs came to light. Jaita Rangreta acts as the narrator in this chapter. In this chapter all the untouchables attached themselves with Guru Nanak and started calling themselves Sikhs of Guru Nanak. The Sikhs also started to use their religious beliefs to take money. One such like incident happened with Jaita himself. When his father left for heaven,…

Steve Macias Prof. Grundmeier English 1A 13 April 2015 The One Dimensional Arab Do Arab countries produce doctors, scientists, athletes, or actors? Scanning through western media reports, we might be tempted to think such occupations simply do not exist in Arabic speaking countries. Instead the phrase, “Arab” conjures images of missiles, turbans, and automatic rifles. Or perhaps we think of men laying prostrate facing Mecca or women dressed in Hijab as they veil their body in their cultural…

Personal Statement As a first generation student to achieve education in the United States I had experienced many of the things that a normal person would differently than other students will. From changing so many schools in my childhood I lacked the stability that a person wants. Every thing was a first for my parents in the United States attending parent teacher meetings, applying for colleges, or financial aid everything was a learning process for all of us. While growing up I faced many…

The Effects of Religious Stereotypes in America The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a law passed to ban all discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, and religion, became a well known piece of history that widely influences our life today. However, there was a missed aspect to this act: the continuity of stereotypes, which discreetly led to unnoticed discrimination all over the country. Stereotypes are widely held, preconceived ideas of certain types of people. All over America,…

between the three. Hinduism is reported to be the world’s oldest religion while Sikhism is one of the newest. Buddhism and Hinduism believe in reincarnation. Buddhists do not believe in a god while Hindus believe in many gods all based on Brahman. Sikhs believe that men and women are equal Hindus that everyone has a place in society and that one cannot change that place or caste. In the following paragraphs is a look at each religion individually. Buddhism’s start in Northern India…

How My Belief System has Influenced My Life I would like you to take moment and clear your mind. The story I am about to share with you is one that has given me the ability to embrace the world around me through Gods’ eyes and not my own. I was baptized at the age of five. God revealed my calling or purpose in life, which was to help heal the hearts and minds of others. I lived faithfully to the doctrine of Jesus Christ in his teaching “The Sermon On the Mount.” At the age of fourteen I broke…

Ghosh published his second novel, titled as The Shadow Lines. Ghosh replaces the magic-realist features and incidents of his first novel by tight plot structure and realist narration in The Shadow Lines which is based on his witnessing of the anti-Sikh riot in Delhi following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. The narrative is based on the memories of the narrator. The Shadow Lines is considered to be Amitav Ghosh’s masterpiece. It is also…

percent of the population. To clarify approximately a little under 24,000,000 out of 1.2 billion. This can also be said for Sikhism originally bounded to India, and dispersed to the rest of the world. Pay a visit to India today and there will be more Sikhs in India than any other region. As for the Shinto religion the same can be said, but differ in the sense that less than 1 percent of its population can be found on another continent (Hawaii and Brazil to be exact). The Shinto religion is…

Priestesses role in Shintoism is to help people clean themselves, bring comfort, and reach to the dead along with other realms. The roles they have are very laid back due to lack of engagement only being there for holidays, blessings, and events. 9. Sikhs traditionally wear five distinctive symbols as marks of their spiritual dedication. First, name the…